George Squires’s work is led by intuition and perplexity. Beginning from a state of not-knowing, Squires filters common objects through his process-based studio practice to uncover new formal and conceptual associations. Typically, found objects are extended through a wide range of methods, like casting, carving, and assemblage. These processes of transformation are rarely complete in Squires's work: frank materiality and representation coexist in a state of poetic reciprocity. In this sense his work reflects a perspective of the world in which truth and fiction are impossible to disentangle.
George Squires is an emerging artist who lives and works on Gadigal and Wangal country, Sydney. Squires holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School (2024), where he was awarded the Dr John Vallance Prize for Sculpture (2021) and the Knulp Exhibition Prize (2022). Squires is currently the guest artist-in-residence at Stonevilla Studios. Squires is the founding co-director of the artist-run-initiative Mega, in Redfern, Sydney.
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